Seed-corn rack and germinator.



No. 841,128. v- PATENTBD JAN. 15, 1907i 0. A. DEWEY.

SEED OORNRAGKIAAND GERMINATOR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7.1906

To all whom it may concern.-

- alrosident oflltockw ell City,

lowing is a spec' ion CHARLES A. DEWEY, OF ROCKWELL CITY, IOWA.

SEED-GGF'iN RACK AND GERMINATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Jan. 15, 1997.

Application filed September 7, 1906. Serial No. 333,617-

'Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. DEWEY, a citizen of thelgUnited States of America,-and Calhoun county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Seed- Corn Rack and Germinator, of which the folcation.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for receiving, containing, and supporting seed-corn on the ear.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved means for germinating and testing seed-corn.

A further obj ectof this invention is to provide means for containing and supporting seed-corn on the ear and means for germinating and testing said seedcorn contiguous thereto.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my a claims, and illustrated by the accompanying for ear-corn. 'Fig.

' 'on opposite .sides of the frame.

drawings, in WhlOll-' Figure 1 is a front levation of the device,

some of the germinating-rece tacles omitted. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of t e dev1ce'. Fig.

3 is a detail perspective illustrating the con structionand manner of supporting a hook minating-box adapted to be supported on the hook. Fig. 5 18 a perspective of a germinating-box and means for supporting the same on the hook.

In the construction of the device as shown a supporting-frame is provided, which frame 'is made and constructed of vertical bars 10.

and horizontal bars 11, crossing each other at right angles and spaced apart desired dis tances. The bars 10 11 may be of any desired material and be connected in any desired manner; but for convenience lshow them made of wire interwoven at the points of crossing by solder 12.. The frame may be supported in any desired manner; but .l prefer to supply hooks 13'on the top bar, adapted to engage a support, (not shown,) such as wire, rod, or beam. Double wire hooks 14 are mounted on the bars 11 between the bars 10 and depend therefrom.

The hooks 14 may be secured by bending the I extremities of the wires of which they are made around the horizontal bars 11 and may be arranged in pairs, as shown in Fig. 2, Ears 15 of "bending the marginal portions at 4 is a perspective of a gerand secured seed-corn may ear in each double hook, and in such position theIseveral ears are exposed to-thorough ventilation-and may be so located and changed about as to be treated by direct rays of the sun as desired. By this means also the seedcorn is preserved and. protected from rodents and earth moisture and maintained under desirable conditions in respect of curing.

be laid in the hooks 14, one 1 Boxes 1.6 are constructed from singlepieces of sheet metal by cutting out the corners and angles to the body, and wires 17 18 are fixed to. the ends of saidboxes and hooked or wrapped on the horizontal connecting-bar's of the double hooks 14. Wide-mouthed bottles'19 or any equivalent device may be substituted tor the boxes 16. The boxes 16 or other containers 19 may be mounted on the frame contiguous to the hooks 14, if desired; but when mounted in any way they serve as germinators. it

In practical use the ear-corn is laid on the hooks 14 v at any convenient time between harvest and planting. At a convenient time before lanting the planter; removes a few grains, our to six usually, from each ear and buries (plants) them in soil or water or moist sand or other germinating medium in a container 16 or 19, the grains from a given ear being planted in. the container contiguous to said car through the series. A few days later the planter inspects the-containers 16 or 19 and makes his selection for permanent planting from the ears that furnished the seeds 01.-

grains that sprout therein, furnished the unsprouted seeds or grains be ing discarded in so-far as field a'nting is concerned. A plurality of the tachrrients may be employed, or' a single frame may be'used repeatedly in respectof one planting season with successive supplies of ear seed-corn. v

I claim as my invention 1. A rack or frame composed of horizontal bars and vertical bars crossing the horizontal bars and rigidly connected thereto, some of the vertical bars extending beyond. the hori- Zontal bars and provided with hookson their: depending ends and hooks mounted on and from opposite sides of said horizontal bars and arranged in vertical rows.

2. A rack or frame, hooks thereon adapted to support car-corn, and containers mounted contiguous to said hooks.

ames and 'at those cars that-g sen 1 3. A rack or frame, means for mounting 1 zontal bars and provided with hooks on their Seed-c0rn thereon, and germinators mountends, hooks mounted on and depending from ed on said frame adjacent the corn thereon. opposite sides of said h a 4. A rack or frame, hooks thereon, and ranged in vertical rows, and containers 5 containers mounted on said hooks.v mounted on and depending from the latter 5. A rack or frame, hooks onboth sides of hooks. said-rack or frame, and containers on said Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this hooks. 26th day of February, 1906.

6. A rack or frame composed of horizontal CHARLES A. DEWEY.

10 bars and vertical bars crossing the horizontal Witnesses:

bars and rigidly connected thereto, some of 1 L. L. LEIBROCK,. the vertical bars extending beyond the hori I S. 0, SWEET.

orizontal bars and ar- I 5 

